Automatically Processing Tweets from Gang-Involved Youth: Towards Detecting Loss and Aggression

Terra Blevins, Robert Kwiatkowski, Jamie MacBeth, Kathleen McKeown, Desmond Patton, Owen Rambow


Abstract
Violence is a serious problems for cities like Chicago and has been exacerbated by the use of social media by gang-involved youths for taunting rival gangs. We present a corpus of tweets from a young and powerful female gang member and her communicators, which we have annotated with discourse intention, using a deep read to understand how and what triggered conversations to escalate into aggression. We use this corpus to develop a part-of-speech tagger and phrase table for the variant of English that is used and a classifier for identifying tweets that express grieving and aggression.
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C16-1207
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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2196–2206
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Terra Blevins, Robert Kwiatkowski, Jamie MacBeth, Kathleen McKeown, Desmond Patton, and Owen Rambow. 2016. Automatically Processing Tweets from Gang-Involved Youth: Towards Detecting Loss and Aggression. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 2196–2206, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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